The French Lesson

Hallie Rubenhold

"Compelling and operatic...Reads like a modern thriller". (SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The Romanovs). "A dark and irresistible historical novel". (LUCY WORSLEY). It was a head, but one so bloodied, so rolled in filth, that it was scarcely recognisable but for its long red curls. It had been stuck ...